Conway Stern
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The Moon astronauts shared their location…with all of us!
Follow the crew in real-time on their journey around the far side of the Moon and back to Earth. go.nasa.gov/3PNeXYV

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La mejor web para seguir a la Artemis II cada minuto
Pero que pedazo de dashboard 🫡
artemis-ii-tracker.com

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The machine that built the chip in this video should mass-humble every human who's ever lived.
ASML's latest EUV lithography system costs $370 million, weighs 180 tons, and requires three Boeing 747s to deliver. It contains over 100,000 individual parts from 5,100 suppliers across 14 countries. It shoots 100,000 molten tin droplets per second with a laser, superheating each one past the temperature of the sun's surface to generate light at a wavelength so short that no natural material on Earth can focus it.
So they had to invent new mirrors. Each one is polished with 100 alternating layers of molybdenum and silicon. The surface tolerance is so extreme that if you scaled a single mirror up to the size of Germany, the tallest imperfection would be 1 millimeter.
Those mirrors took 20 years to develop. The company that makes them, Zeiss, had to build entirely new metrology tools just to confirm the mirrors were flat enough, because no existing measurement instrument on Earth could verify the precision they needed.
The machine prints features at 2 nanometers. That's roughly 10 atoms wide. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers. A red blood cell is 7,000. A single COVID virus particle is 100. These machines are etching functional circuits 50 times smaller than a virus.
TSMC is now mass producing 2nm chips in a Kaohsiung fab so large the cleanroom is twice the size of any competitor's. Each 2nm wafer costs $30,000 to produce. The entire 2026 production run was booked before a single chip shipped. Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm all reserved capacity years in advance. TSMC is spending $28.6 billion just to build enough fabs to meet demand for this one node.
The chip that comes out of this process is smaller than a fingernail, runs on less power than a light bulb, and contains transistors that wrap gates around nanosheets of silicon only a few atoms thick.
The raw material it started as was sand. The sand cost a fraction of a penny. The civilization that processed it into this started by banging rocks together.
Kyros@IamKyros69
Humans saw stones and sticks and decided to make this
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The streets are calling.
New Orleans artist Flagboy Giz channels the spirit of Mardi Gras Indian tradition with a powerful performance of ‘We Outside’.
Watch the full show: colors.lnk.to/flagboygiz
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Never in history have good people done this.
MO@Abu_Salah9
What these satellite images reveal is pure horror. Israel did this to Gaza
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She's thriving because she treats it like the Gods intended, as a game.
matt@FM1_3316
This photo from above of Alysa’s last spin… woah
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